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<h3 class="section">20.11 Parsing of Numbers</h3>

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This section describes functions for &ldquo;reading&rdquo; integer and
floating-point numbers from a string.  It may be more convenient in some
cases to use <code>sscanf</code> or one of the related functions; see
<a href="Formatted-Input.html#Formatted-Input">Formatted Input</a>.  But often you can make a program more robust by
finding the tokens in the string by hand, then converting the numbers
one by one.

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<li><a accesskey="1" href="Parsing-of-Integers.html#Parsing-of-Integers">Parsing of Integers</a>:          Functions for conversion of integer values. 
<li><a accesskey="2" href="Parsing-of-Floats.html#Parsing-of-Floats">Parsing of Floats</a>:            Functions for conversion of floating-point
				 values. 
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